Sonakshi Srivastava
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Senior Writing Tutor @CWC_AshokaUniv /Translations Ed. @usawamag /Ed. Arm Asst. @Asymptotejrnl /Translation Fellow @AsiaSpeaks /🖋️/📖/🔎 waste, food, trivia
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Words fall short to express my excitement! I will be working with the incredible
@arunava
on my dream project!! Thank you
@soniafaleiro
and
@AsiaSpeaks
for this incredible opportunity. Feels surreal ✨🌸
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Elated. Blessed. Thrilled to be accepted into
@breadloafwriter
translators' conference.
Always grateful to
@AsiaSpeaks
@soniafaleiro
and
@arunava
for placing faith in my words. 🌸
Huge congratulations to
@SonakshiS11
(SAS, 2021) who was accepted into the 9th annual Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference at Middlebury College and has received the Katharine Bakeless Nason scholarship. Congrats Sonakshi!
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Really honoured and excited about this new role!
Looking forward to reading your fantastic pieces!!
Submit now! 🪻🍀
It's
#WomenInTranslation
month, and we're exceedingly happy to introduce our new translations editor,
@SonakshiS11
, a brilliant translator herself. If you have translated fiction or poetry themed around
#TheBody
, send it to
#UsawaLiteraryReview
by 30th Sept.
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grateful, elated, and not very demure about it! 🪄🖋️
Our first week is off to a momentous start. Let’s give it up for our amazing
#HUESScholars
who are representing the Summer 2024 cohort. So grateful to have
#HUESLecturer
@jasonbcrawford
with us this term. Can't wait to see the poems y'all produce! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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wrote something about bees and life 🌻🐝
Publication Alert | Sonakshi Srivastava (Writing Tutor, CWC) published an essay titled "What My Grandmother Talked about When She Talked about Life" in Climate Changes Global Perspectives
@Uni_WUE
@SonakshiS11
#ClimateAction
#WritingCommunity
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Hello, I have a little piece in this anthology by Nivaala and
@AliporeThe
! It was a great joy to be able to write about my evergreen gastro-love interest, kathal//jackfruits! 🍀
DM me for a discount code!
Order link here :
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excited to have my first translation of the year out in my dream journal
@asap_connect
! Do give this a read!
#translations
This week on ASAP Fiction, we are pleased to feature a translation of Harishankar Parsai's short story "Pehla Safed Baal" by
@SonakshiS11
, which follows a man's reckoning with the sighting of a grey strand.
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I am reading translations for the next themed issue of
@usawamag
! Submit now, and do spread the word around! Can't wait to gorge on those words! 🥝🖊️
#callforsubmissions
#translations
📸 🎨 📚 Calling all creatives!
@usawamag
is now open for poetry, short fiction, translations, book reviews, non-fiction, photography, and interview submissions worldwide.
Submissions should explore the theme 'appetite'.
Deadline: 15 April.
Learn more:
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a tad bit late, but managed to do it anyway~here is the drive link to readings for English Honours students at University of Delhi.I have managed to collate readings for sem 5, and promise to upload for the remaining semesters as well in the coming days.
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If you are looking for some nice summer reads, look no further!
@gautambhatia88
has you covered! Thank you for your suggestions, and for agreeing to do this!
@CWC_AshokaUniv
#scifi
#WritingCommunity
#reading
Gautam Bhatia, Writer, Co-Ordinating Editor, Strange Horizons magazine, shares his thoughts on some of his fav sci-fi reads. Check-out our shelf pick episode on YouTube to find which ones.
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What a discussion this panel was!
Super grateful to be in such an erudite company
@isacorletto
, and
@nguyen_anly
Thank you
@subhashree_b
,
@LitTranslate
,
@KelsiVanada
Felt great to be back after 2?! years! ✨
This is your cue to sign up for ALTA membership!!! 🌸🎉
Happening now! Don't miss the
#WriteTheWorld
panel "A Palette of Languages: Translating into or from Non-Native Tongues," feat.
@isacorletto
,
@nguyen_anly
, and
@SonakshiS11
!
Tix (just $15 for the whole day) here:
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Issue 11 is now live with some lovely translations from
@yyemilylu
,
@RohanKar98
, and
@Quamrul_Hassan
!! Thank you for trusting us with your words. It was a treat to read all the submissions. Your chance to gorge on these now! 🥑🥞🍳
#translations
#writingcommunity
Check out the latest release of Issue 11, Appetite. It is live now!
#NewRelease
#AppetiteIssue
#MagazineLaunch
#ReadNow
#UsawaLiteraryReview
#UsawaMeansEquality
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The provision to access, and take exams from a CSC is also a joke. How many lives must be risked to realise an apathetic model of 'virtual' success by the VC. To realise that Education is a Right, and not a Privilege.
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@adilhossain
@ajanthasub
@SnehaK20
@rhodes_trust
@nandankamath
this thread holds true not just for Rhodes but for so many scholarships extended by 'benevolent Trusts'. Thanks for this articulation!
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Issue 10 of
@usawamag
is here! Read, and read! It was indeed a pleasure to put together translations across Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Thank you
@maniraopoem
@VinkyMittal
@tuhintranslates
@attimes_theFool
@priyamvada_ram
@artisuch
for thinking of us! 🌸
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Really grateful to
@may_dinger
and the team at
@sparkstirling
for giving my ideas a home.
Grateful always to
@SumanaSiliguri
and Kiran Desai for everything they write 🍀🌻
The first article in this year's issue is
@SonakshiS11
's paper "On Reading Transformation in Desai's Hullabaloo on the Guava Orchard" (
@CWC_AshokaUniv
) which analyses literary texts to consider personal transformation and human existence in the context of sustainable living.
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I write on salt, fidelity, and the Sarkar. What a lovely issue pieced together! 🌸
In 1920, E. M. Forster wrote a diary entry that was a hundred years ahead of its time...
Delve into the memories and reflections in our first TMR issue of 2021:
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This was like translating a piece of my heart.
Would love for you all to give this a read 🌸✨
Kickstarting our serialised fiction category with a translation of the the iconic Hindi satirist
#HarishankarParsai
's story "Ek Ladki, Panch Deewane". Part one live on the website.
@SonakshiS11
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I attempt to locate the 'city' in authenticity through the 2014 Tunday Kebab Lawsuit. Promising a unique serving of Law, Kebabs, and Nostalgia.....
Today on the blog
@SonakshiS11
considers identity, authenticity, and nostalgia through the 2014 Tunday Kebab Lawsuit.
Read on to find out how the history of Lucknow and Tunday kebabs impacted the outcome of the final verdict. -CGB
#FoodHistory
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Peak reaction upon seeing DU's brand new promise of a datesheet
#DuagainstOBE
#Duagainstonlineexaminations
#UGCGuidelines
#Cancel_Exam2020
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just when you thought 2020 cannot get any worse...
Locusts in the Sunday sky.
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did a quick fiction piece for
@ASLE_EcoCast
.
Thank you for homing my words 🌴🌏🏡
We’re a year old! In podcast years that’s like mid-30s!
We have a special treat for you this month, as we not only reflect on our first year, but also hear 25 environmentally-themed Quick Fictions.
#HumanitiesPodcast
#EnvironmentalHumanities
@ASLE_US
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grateful to
@c_the_abbott
for all her attentive care as a reader and editor behind this piece. Thank you for helping me put this out into the world! 🪻📖
@NiCHE_Canada
Today on our site we have "“Scrap”ping Humanity: A Study of Monstrosity in Frankenstein in Baghdad" by
@SonakshiS11
This is the seventh post in the Ghost Light II: Monstrosities series edited by
@c_the_abbott
#envhum
#envhist
#folklore
#discardstudies
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Come and join us for this workshop on reading and reflexivity! We promise this will be fun and enriching!
@DrVrindaChopra
Details here 👇🌠
Very excited to share -
@SonakshiS11
and I are facilitating a virtual workshop on reading and reflexivity at the Watson Conference (Feb 28 - Mar 1). Registration free for BIPOC attendees. Join us for a meaningful 3 days :)
More details:
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perfect word doesn't exis----
snollygoster (19th century): an unprincipled individual who is driven entirely by political gain.
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#CfP
#callforpapers
#callforsubmissions
#WritingCommmunity
Deadline alert: 2nd February!
Apply now!
@DrVrindaChopra
Come and join us for this workshop on reading and reflexivity! We promise this will be fun and enriching!
@DrVrindaChopra
Details here 👇🌠
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have it figured now.
2020 is raita. My life isn't boondi, though.
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a very valid reason to love acad collabs.
@smritiverma__
thank you ✨
@AnandiniDar
@divkan1
thank you, again 🌸
very very happy to share this small, meandering article penned with
@SonakshiS11
looking Udaan, a movie which stayed with me since i was a kid, and the concluding editorial to the work we got to do at
@TCcysc
!! take a look :)
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most of these are readings that I referred to, and think relevant enough to be shared. Please consider these as secondary readings. Feel free to ping me for help/advice etc.
And, please do retweet!!
🌸
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still waiting for UGC to put an end to speculations ~
"Bolo pencil, tumhare exams cancel"
Just say it already...
@ugc_india
@HRDMinistry
@DrRPNishank
#DuAgainstOnlineExam
#ScrapOBE
#Duagainstonlineexamination
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i have a piece in this brilliant whole ✨🌸
Our October issue is out!
This issue is all about celebrating food, and all the blessings it comes with.
Please share with us your thoughts and comments.
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@advAkashSinha
@Gunjan6397
Hi! For MA English, it's the same - 4 papers, out of which 3 are core, and 1 is the IDC (Inter disciplinary course).
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@AsiaSpeaks
Thank you 🌻 None of this would have been possible without your kind recognition and faith in my words ✨🌸
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Reminder that submissions remain open for a fortnight! Send your writing our way! 🖋️🤓
P.S. I am reading translations!
#WritingCommunity
#translation
#writing
📣 Calling all creatives! 📚
@usawamag
invites contributions in various forms (ranging from poetry to interviews) around the theme ‘Gender & Its Discontents’ for its December Issue.
Deadline: 20 September
Learn more:
#usawaliteraryreview
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@advAkashSinha
The website reflects "record not found" right now. This is weird because I had checked my credentials back when DU was supposed to conduct the OBE for the first time.
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@ABVPVoice
11/10 to the audacious comparisons drawn to universities like Oxford, NTU etc with little or no regard to the socio-economic factors of the Indian students.
Guarantee seamless internet connectivity, 'complete' notes of lectures not conducted, and laptops/smartphones, dim bulbs.
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@UjashaTeaparty
don't worry, Pokhriyal uncle will beat away the barbadi and the blues with his article on depression 😩😩
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Competition - win a set of the
#InternationalBooker2020
shortlist. To enter:
1. Follow
@TheBookerPrizes
2. Like this post + tag a friend who you think will enjoy the shortlist
3. Retweet the video below using the hashtag
#InternationalBooker2020comp
Ts&Cs
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not even mentioning PwD because they have always been at the periphery with no adequate representation, and redressals.
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@OddMagCo
thank you for the opportunity! looking forward to reading and digesting all the lovely pieces here!! 🌸
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@thebooksatchel
Anita Desai is so distinctively Indian. Her books came to me from my mother which make her all the more special!
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what even is a spot...
Poststructuralists be like “I know a spot,” but then spend 300 pages explaining why it’s not really a spot.
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I really feared getting blocked by Eventbrite due to my inability to keep up with the events.....
I've got some thoughts on online seminars/workshops & timezones.
A *lot* is in a time zone that makes it impossible to attend in Asia, *even* in *Asian studies*, because Europe events prioritise a US audience & vice versa. Consider planning events at a time that people in... 1/
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@SumanaSiliguri
@Himalistan
this is such an interesting read. I remember how in my undergrad, I had gotten a "xerox-ed" copy of Bloom's notes. My grandfather who had been a lecturer at Lucknow University off handedly remarked how Raghukul Tilak is the Harold Bloom of India~ an anachronistic comparison 1/
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Delhi University be like "I know a spot" and then takes you to a server that questions the existence of the user.
Peak DU behavior..
@DrRPNishank
@ugc_india
@HRDMinistry
@nidhiindiatv
#DUAgainstOnlineExams
#ScrapOBE
Even after typing right details, this kept showing. I got extremely worried but turns out no one can login now as SITE CRASHED.
@ugc_india
no matter what my university says, DU doesn't have the IT infra to conduct this exam. Please listen to stakeholders.
#DUAgainstOnlineExams
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@Navas64179518
silence makes sense because final year students do not contribute as 'vote banks'....
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@aileenwalsh16
@CatherineJPrice
@anthrowriting
@ThomsonPat
@ExchangesIAS
@BritishAcademy_
same, thank you so much 🌸
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@SumanaSiliguri
@Himalistan
Nana is all praise for your piece. Have got him a printed version now. Thank you for this!🌸
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@ugc_india
@DrRPNishank
@HRDMinistry
#ScrapOBE
#DUAgainstOnlineExams
#DuAgainstOnlineExam
Hope sense prevails, because honestly I don't even have books to open for a mock.
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@SumanaSiliguri
@Himalistan
that continues to stay with me as I see his bookshelf homing the trinity, and Bloom amongst others.
With IGNOU answer scripts still coming home to be checked by him, I can now totally understand why certain answers delight him, one where Yeats is dissolved in "eats".. 2/n
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@sigetics
@LeaEspinozaGar1
@AttilaKornel
@CanCakir90
@ilhancamici
@WeAteTheRest
@MHoulemarde
@PuyanJ
thank you for the opportunity! ✨
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@soniafaleiro
@arunava
so, so humbled. A heartfelt thanks for giving me this opportunity, and believing in me. Shukriya 🌸🌸
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@Broke_Bookworm
Thank you so much! 🌸💜
Means a lot coming from you! Hope to meet you really soon!! ✨
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